BREAKING: Court Asked To Stop Akpabio, Abbas, Others From Increasing National Assembly 2024 Budget

Naija News understands that Akpabio and Abbas are being sued for themselves and on behalf of all members of the National Assembly.

The lawmakers had last month raised their allocation from N197 billion proposed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for them in the budget to N344bn. The lawmakers will in total draw N514bn from the 2024 budget. The lawmakers also in 2023 arbitrarily increased their own budget from the originally proposed N169bn to N228bn.